Loveless 8
Posted: December 2, 2008 Filed under: Loveless 1 Comment »Oh, Loveless. I wish you made more sense. You would truly be great if only you had a coherent story, or characters I could tell apart, or even characters that were clearly masculine or feminine. It would help a lot if you didn’t imply sex between young characters, too, or at least made it so I didn’t have to think about it. Because that’s really, really creepy.
With that said, more happens in this volume than any of the other previous volumes combined. Maybe. As promised, Ritsuka and Soubi run into Seimei, and there is actually a really decent confrontation. Seimei’s motives aren’t really clear, but what is clear is that he’s a true psychopath. He doesn’t do the dirty work himself (or at least most of it), but I think it’s pretty clever that he’s a sacrifice that is so good with words that he can do all the damage he wants to people without even engaging them in a battle. He doesn’t even need a fighter unit with that mouth.
Surprisingly, we also get a Soubi flashback. I really wasn’t expecting that. We learn more about the weird director (?) character that Seimi confronts at the beginning of the volume. Maybe he’s important. I don’t know. I can’t remember. A girl complains a lot about Seimei as a result of their confrontation. I think she’s been in the series before? The zeroes answer to her? I don’t know. It’s not just an issue of the sorta generic character design. There’s also just too many characters and too much going on. I don’t think it would be quite right otherwise though, so I can’t criticize it too heavily.
Anyway, Soubi’s flashback. We also see how Soubi lost his ears, which is creepy, and we get to see how he and Seimei were in the beginning, which is even creepier.
I’m not sure where the story is going after this volume, which is sort of unfortunate. Everything seemed to have built up to this. There are a few story threads that are left open, and pretty much everything is still unresolved, but I feel like this is what I’ve been reading along for all this time. It was certainly satisfying… but… yeah. I’m just never gonna be a real big fan of this series, I think.
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